Screenplay: Martin Rackin

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Martin Rackin. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


The Horse Soldiers

1959 · Movie · 119 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · William Holden · Constance Towers · Althea Gibson

Synopsis A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail/supply centre. Along with them is sent a doctor who causes instant antipathy between him and...

7.6

4K votes

7.6

4K votes

The Enforcer

1951 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Bretaigne Windust · Raoul Walsh

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Zero Mostel · Ted de Corsia · Everett Sloane

Synopsis After years of pursuit, Assistant D.A. Martin Ferguson has a good case against Murder, Inc. boss Albert Mendoza. Mendoza is in jail and his lieutenant Joseph Rico is going to...

7.4

2K votes

7.4

2K votes

Distant Drums

1951 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Gary Cooper · Mari Aldon · Richard Webb · Arthur Hunnicutt

Synopsis After destroying a Seminole fort, American soldiers and their rescued companions must face the dangerous Everglades and hostile Indians in order to reach safety.

6.8

2K votes

6.8

2K votes

Air Raid Wardens

1943 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Edward Sedgwick

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Edgar Kennedy · Jacqueline White

Synopsis Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs bent on blowing up the local magnesium plant.

6.7

43 votes

6.7

43 votes

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Three Secrets

1950 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Eleanor Parker · Patricia Neal · Ruth Roman · Frank Lovejoy

Synopsis A five-year-old-boy survives a plane crash in which his foster parents die. During the search for him, three women turn up, Susan, Phyllis and Ann, each of whom had given...

6.5

240 votes

6.5

240 votes

North to Alaska

1960 · Movie · 122 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast John Wayne · Stewart Granger · Capucine · Ernie Kovacs

Synopsis Year 1900. After partners George Pratt and Sam McCord strike it rich with their Nome, Alaska gold mine, George's only wish is to marry his French fiancée Jenny, who has...

6.5

1K votes

6.5

1K votes

Race Street

1948 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Edwin L. Marin

Cast George Raft · William Bendix · Marilyn Maxwell · Frank Faylen

Synopsis Nice-guy bookie Dan Gannin plans to quit the racket; he's opening a new night club with his torch-singing sister as main attraction. But Dan's best friend Hal runs afoul of...

6.4

54 votes

6.4

54 votes

Riffraff

1947 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Ted Tetzlaff

Cast Pat O'Brien · Anne Jeffreys · Walter Slezak · Percy Kilbride

Synopsis A plane takes off from Peru (in a long no-dialogue scene) in a storm with two passengers; it lands in Panama with one. The missing man had valuable oil-location maps;...

6.3

31 votes

6.3

31 votes

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Hell on Frisco Bay

1955 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Frank Tuttle

Cast Alan Ladd · Edward G. Robinson · Joanne Dru · William Demarest

Synopsis After 5 years in prison, ex-cop Steve Rollins is paroled and searches for the San Francisco mobsters who framed him for manslaughter.

6.0

129 votes

6.0

129 votes

The Stooge

1951 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Dean Martin · Jerry Lewis · Polly Bergen · Marion Marshall

Synopsis Egotistical vaudevillian Bill Miller basks in the limelight with his successful musical-comedy act, but his success is due to his unheralded second banana.

6.0

42 votes

6.0

42 votes

A Dangerous Profession

1949 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Ted Tetzlaff

Cast George Raft · Ella Raines · Pat O'Brien · Bill Williams

Synopsis Ex-policeman Vince Kane is a partner with Joe Farley as bail bond brokers, but retains his ties and friendship with the police and Detective Nick Ferrone. Ferrone picks up Claude...

5.9

80 votes

5.9

80 votes

The Big Land

1957 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

5.6

153 votes

5.6

153 votes

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Fighter Squadron

1948 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Edmond O'Brien · Robert Stack · John Rodney · Tom D'Andrea

Synopsis At an American air base in England, 1943, is conniving Sergeant Dolan, who manipulates everyone, and insubordinate ace fighter pilot Major Ed Hardin. When Ed is promoted to commander of...

5.6

87 votes

5.6

87 votes

Marine Raiders

1944 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Harold D. Schuster

Cast Pat O'Brien · Robert Ryan · Ruth Hussey · Frank McHugh

Synopsis Two Marine officers and their company go on leave when the Army takes over during the Guadalcanal invasion. Their leave is spent in Australia where one of the officers falls...

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5.5

24 votes

5.5

24 votes

Sailor Beware

1952 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Hal Walker

Cast Dean Martin · Jerry Lewis · Corinne Calvet · Marion Marshall

Synopsis Chasing pretty girls, blowing up a liferaft inside a submarine, virtually every sailor gag ever thought of, and a bunch of songs fill out this Martin and Lewis outing as...

5.4

100 votes

5.4

100 votes

Lisbon

1956 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Ray Milland

Cast Ray Milland · Maureen O'Hara · Claude Rains · Yvonne Furneaux

Synopsis High stakes battle of wits and morals between gentlemen crooks, set in beautiful Portugal.

5.3

68 votes

5.3

68 votes

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Bombardier

1943 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Richard Wallace

Cast Eugene L. Eubank · Pat O'Brien · Randolph Scott · Anne Shirley

Synopsis Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precision bombing, and establishes a school for bombardiers. Training is followed in semi-documentary style, with personal dramas...

5.2

65 votes

5.2

65 votes

The Deep Six

1958 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Rudolph Maté

Cast Alan Ladd · Dianne Foster · William Bendix · Keenan Wynn

Synopsis The conflict between duty and conscience is explored in the WWII drama The Deep Six. Alan Ladd stars as Naval gunnery officer Alec Austin...

4.7

65 votes

4.7

65 votes

The Barbarians

1960 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Rudolph Maté

Cast Jack Palance · Milly Vitale · Deirdre Sullivan · Austin Willis

Synopsis Revak is an Iberian prince from Penda, a small island where the Carthagian fleet ransacked and enslaved the surviving native men, including him. After an eventful passage aboard a galley,...

4.5

69 votes

4.5

69 votes

Three Secrets (TV)

1999 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Marcus Cole

Cast Jaclyn Smith · Katy Boyer · Nicole Forester · Scott Plank

Synopsis Three women each cling to the hope that an 8 year old boy that survives an airplane crash is their son that was put up for adoption as a baby....

Not rated

Not rated

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